Wei Dong Zhou is responsible for setting the strategic direction of all of The Sustainability Consortium's projects in China as chief representative. He has also been newly selected as executive secretary-general of the Alliance of Green Consumption and Green Supply Chain in China. Zhou has more than 20 years of experience in Chinese government, nonprofit organization management, CSR and sustainability strategy, philanthropy, the state owner sector, and multinational companies. Prior to joining The Sustainability Consortium, Zhou worked for a private foundation in China as general manager for one year, and for seven years prior to that, worked as BSR's China Country Director. At BSR, he founded offices in Beijing and Guangzhou and provided advice and counsel to BSR's member companies and their sustainable supply chain partners.

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Dakota Gruener is the Executive Director of ID2020, a public-private partnership working to ensure that everyone on the planet has access to a digital identity. As executive director, she leads overall strategy, builds critical partnerships with public- and private-sector stakeholders, and continually focuses the organization on reaching “the last girl." Dakota comes to ID2020 from Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance (Gavi), where she served as an Executive Officer working directly with the CEO. Gavi is an innovative global public-private partnership that acts as the central coordinating body for childhood vaccinations in the developing world, and which reaches nearly 60 percent of the world's children with life-saving vaccines.

Bob Dunn, previous president and CEO of BSR, has served in leadership positions in the private, public, and independent sectors, most recently as president and CEO of the Synergos Institute. Dunn has also worked as a corporate vice president at Levi Strauss & Co., a senior aide to U.S. President Carter in the White House, an advisor to the U.S. ambassador to Mexico, and as chief of staff and budget director for a Wisconsin governor. He has been a lecturer in the M.B.A. program at Stanford University and a dean and lecturer in political science at Wesleyan University and is currently a guest lecturer in the Master's program at Glasgow Calidonian University. He is also an executive coach and mentor for executives, social entrepreneurs, and philanthropists.

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One of the first women photographers to work for National Geographic, Annie Griffiths has photographed in nearly 150 countries during her illustrious career and has worked on dozens of magazine and book projects for National Geographic. Griffiths’ work has also appeared in Fortune, GEO, LIFE, Smithsonian, and Stern, among other publications. In addition to her magazine work, Griffiths is deeply committed to photographing for aid organizations around the world. She is the founder and executive director of Ripple Effect Images, a collective of photographers who document programs that empower women and girls in the developing world. Ripple has produced 26 films and built a photo library of more than 20,000 images since 2010. Using these assets, Ripple’s aid beneficiaries have raised more than 10 million U.S. dollars, expanded their programs to multiple countries, and proven that women and girls are the best investment the world can make in our shared future.